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Ludum Dare 45 gamejam starting soon

68 points by slater 7y ago

soulofmischief 7y ago
Who's in? 15 more minutes! Drop your LD username below and I'll play your game
- nexuist 7y ago
  Me! Have no idea what the heck I'm doing but hoping for the "unconventional travel" theme!
  - soulofmischief 7y ago
    That one would fit the game idea I had yesterday perfectly, in fact I could bend quite a few of these themes to it, so fingers crossed! What's your LD username so I can check your game out when it's finished? edit: Start with nothing
    - nexuist 7y ago
      This is me: https://ldjam.com/users/andi/ https://ldjam.com/users/andi/ I don't know if I'm going to submit at all, but you can follow if you'd like. Still racking my head for ideas to fit with this theme.
- Macha 7y ago
  Normally would be, but couldn't book the monday for my usual recovery day. Hard to do 12 straight days of programming.
- kd5bjo 7y ago
  https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/untitled https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/untitled
unwiredben 7y ago
...and the theme is "Start With Nothing"
- cableshaft 7y ago
  Kind of seems like most games have this theme, really. A lot of games are about starting with nothing and then building up to something crazy. Everything from Civilization to Final Fantasy to Katamari Damacy to Tetris does this. But hey, a constraint is a constraint. I'm sure some really clever games will appear from this.
  - Pfhreak 7y ago
    Civilization, you start with a settler and some warriors. Final Fantasy starts with a character or two. Tetris has a game board. I mean, there's lots of places to play around with starting from an even more primordial slate.
    - thethirdone 7y ago
      > ... Tetris has a game board. > I mean, there's lots of places to play around with starting from an even more primordial slate. I am struggling to see how you can start with a more primordial state than Tetris. If there is no game world, you cannot possibly progress into there being something you can interact with other than perhaps the game world unfolding after some amount of predetermined time.
      - Pfhreak 7y ago
        I could imagine a universal paperclips style game where the initial interface was literally just a solid color. That resolved over time as you moved your mouse or typed, slowly gaining fidelity and using the randomness of your movements to dynamically fill in some color scheme. (So it would eventually resolve to a game space, but one that was uniquely colored by your actions.) Conway's game of life often starts with nothing. You could pretty easily start with literally just a white screen. I could imagine some stuff that's probably closer to generative art starting from nothing. You could have a sea of noise that you sort of collect into a shape, which eventually becomes your avatar. I think about a game like Warning Forever played pretty well with the concept of starting with (almost) nothing.
georgeecollins 7y ago
I wish I knew about this sooner. Hopefully I can do the next one.
- jason_slack 7y ago
  me too. I'd love to be able to participate in one.
  - lee337 7y ago
    Advance notice of some other game jams coming up: › GitHub Game Off (Nov 1) https://gameoff.github.com https://gameoff.github.com › Global Game Jam (Jan 31) https://globalgamejam.org https://globalgamejam.org https://itch.io/jams https://itch.io/jams is a great resource for other fun, niche jams.
- _bxg1 7y ago
  They do this one every couple months and it's pretty great; rather large community of people will play and rate different games. And you can do it from anywhere in the world, with any size team or tech.
- bobbyd3 7y ago
  Notch (creator of Minecraft) used to blog about really liking Ludum Dare as well.
panpanna 7y ago
Never participated in LD myself but I always try to follow up and check some projects and read their code. Ludum Dare is an unusual combination of talent, efficiency and humbleness. In some sense the direct opposite of a typical IT workplace :)

68 points by slater 7y ago

soulofmischief 7y ago

Who's in? 15 more minutes! Drop your LD username below and I'll play your game

nexuist 7y ago
Me! Have no idea what the heck I'm doing but hoping for the "unconventional travel" theme!
- soulofmischief 7y ago
  That one would fit the game idea I had yesterday perfectly, in fact I could bend quite a few of these themes to it, so fingers crossed! What's your LD username so I can check your game out when it's finished? edit: Start with nothing
  - nexuist 7y ago
    This is me: https://ldjam.com/users/andi/ https://ldjam.com/users/andi/ I don't know if I'm going to submit at all, but you can follow if you'd like. Still racking my head for ideas to fit with this theme.
Macha 7y ago
Normally would be, but couldn't book the monday for my usual recovery day. Hard to do 12 straight days of programming.
kd5bjo 7y ago
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/untitled https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/untitled

unwiredben 7y ago

...and the theme is "Start With Nothing"

cableshaft 7y ago
Kind of seems like most games have this theme, really. A lot of games are about starting with nothing and then building up to something crazy. Everything from Civilization to Final Fantasy to Katamari Damacy to Tetris does this. But hey, a constraint is a constraint. I'm sure some really clever games will appear from this.
- Pfhreak 7y ago
  Civilization, you start with a settler and some warriors. Final Fantasy starts with a character or two. Tetris has a game board. I mean, there's lots of places to play around with starting from an even more primordial slate.
  - thethirdone 7y ago
    > ... Tetris has a game board. > I mean, there's lots of places to play around with starting from an even more primordial slate. I am struggling to see how you can start with a more primordial state than Tetris. If there is no game world, you cannot possibly progress into there being something you can interact with other than perhaps the game world unfolding after some amount of predetermined time.
    - Pfhreak 7y ago
      I could imagine a universal paperclips style game where the initial interface was literally just a solid color. That resolved over time as you moved your mouse or typed, slowly gaining fidelity and using the randomness of your movements to dynamically fill in some color scheme. (So it would eventually resolve to a game space, but one that was uniquely colored by your actions.) Conway's game of life often starts with nothing. You could pretty easily start with literally just a white screen. I could imagine some stuff that's probably closer to generative art starting from nothing. You could have a sea of noise that you sort of collect into a shape, which eventually becomes your avatar. I think about a game like Warning Forever played pretty well with the concept of starting with (almost) nothing.

georgeecollins 7y ago

I wish I knew about this sooner. Hopefully I can do the next one.

jason_slack 7y ago
me too. I'd love to be able to participate in one.
- lee337 7y ago
  Advance notice of some other game jams coming up: › GitHub Game Off (Nov 1) https://gameoff.github.com https://gameoff.github.com › Global Game Jam (Jan 31) https://globalgamejam.org https://globalgamejam.org https://itch.io/jams https://itch.io/jams is a great resource for other fun, niche jams.
_bxg1 7y ago
They do this one every couple months and it's pretty great; rather large community of people will play and rate different games. And you can do it from anywhere in the world, with any size team or tech.
bobbyd3 7y ago
Notch (creator of Minecraft) used to blog about really liking Ludum Dare as well.

panpanna 7y ago

Never participated in LD myself but I always try to follow up and check some projects and read their code. Ludum Dare is an unusual combination of talent, efficiency and humbleness. In some sense the direct opposite of a typical IT workplace :)